The Flint Journal

A Great Lakes piping plover from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been confirmed as the first juvenile of the year to arrive at the species’ wintering grounds in the southern U.S. The Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort, a multi-agency network collaborating to increase populations of the federally...

LANSING, MI – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Saturday, Aug. 13, activated the State Emergency Operations Center with 13 Metro Detroit communities under a boil-water advisory after a major water-main break. The advisory initially was estimated to impact 935,000 people in 23 communities but the list has since been reduced...

DETROIT, MI – Thirteen communities remain under a boil-water advisory after authorities discovered a break in a major water main that distributes drinking water. Great Lakes Water Authority, or GLWA, said Saturday, Aug. 13, that these communities are under the advisory: Village of Almont, Bruce Township, Burtchville Township, Chesterfield Township, city of Imlay, Lenox Township, Macomb Township, Mayfield Township, Village of New Haven, city of Rochester, city of Romeo, Shelby Township, Washington Township.

LANSING, MI-- More people reached out to a confidential tip line in 2021 to report threats, violent behavior or mental health crises to help keep students, teachers and other staff in Michigan schools safe. OK2SAY, Michigan’s student safety program run by the Michigan State Police, received 6,255 tips spanning 30 categories...

FLINT, MI -- The city of Flint and Flint Township were removed from a list of 23 communities the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) issued a boil water advisory for Saturday morning because of a water main leak. Following the emergency alert, the city of Flint, GLWA and Flint Department...

KENT COUNTY, MI -- When Kim Pugno heard that mastodon bones had been discovered close to her Grant area house, she went to check it out. It wasn’t long before she was sloshing around in a muddy hole, helping excavate the archeological find. “This is so cool. It’s right...

DETROIT, MI – The Great Lakes Water Authority issued a boil water advisory Saturday morning for 23 communities after a water main break. The leak on a 120-inch water transmission main was discovered in the early morning hours of Aug. 13, and is affecting an estimated 935,000 people in metro Detroit communities, according to a Great Lakes Water Authority(GLWA) press release.

SALINE, MI - Adam Sakel wants students who take his history classes to have a better understanding of themselves, as well as know how to critically examine ideas and present their own ideas respectfully and persuasively. That learning process also should include hands-on activities to make the subject come alive,...

LANSING, MI – There were no $1 million winners and no one brought home the $65 million Mega Millions jackpot for the drawing held on Friday, Aug. 12. That means the drawing on Tuesday, Aug. 16 will be worth $82 million with a cash option of $47.1 million. The...

DETROIT -- Tracy Walker and DeShon Elliott have been at the top of the safety room for the Detroit Lions from the start of training camp. And that’s no surprise, with third-round rookie Kerby Joseph still relatively new to safety and other defensive backs swapping positions. However, Joseph got...

FLINT, MI -- Three boxers from the same gym will be representing Flint on one of amateur boxing’s biggest stages next week. Jaquan McElroy, Christopher Thompson and Sardius Simmons, all who train out of the Berston Field House boxing gym located on the city’s north side, will compete in the National Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions in Tulsa, Oklahoma next week.

This post has been updated to include a clarification from Café Grumpy. A California company has expanded a July recall of nutritional drinks, creamers and other beverages because they may be contaminated by the organisms cronobacter sakazakii and clostridium botulinum. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the...

Michigan’s primary election passed by last week with few bumps in the road. But with the most decentralized election system in America, local clerks from both parties are calling for critical changes, and they want state lawmakers’ attention. Election results are notoriously slow in Michigan, with the most...

Ben Orner here, MLive’s elections reporter 🗳️. Hopefully you’re off to a good weekend. We’ve known for a while that Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office was investigating an alleged theft last year of voting machines from the 2020 election. But that saga revealed a...

DETROIT -- Welcome to another preseason where Detroit Lions wide receiver Tom Kennedy’s stock is trending up after the first game. Kennedy had a game-high eight catches on 12 targets for 104 yards in Detroit’s 27-23 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Friday night. Kennedy made the right...

DAVISON, MI - While some food trucks keep things simple, there is nothing ordinary about Sweet Whimsies. Sweet Whimsies is a food truck that specializes in making homemade sweets and desserts for people celebrating milestones in life with those they love and care about most. Ranging from weddings, birthday parties...

DETROIT -- The projected starting offensive line for the Detroit Lions finally shared the field for the first time in over a year. It’s been a long road back, and the limited first look at the stout group did not disappoint in Detroit’s 27-23 preseason-opening loss to the Atlanta Falcons.

DETROIT -- The Detroit Lions let their preseason opener against the Atlanta Falcons slip away in the final minutes, losing 27-23 in front of 40,000-plus announced fans at Ford Field. Backup quarterback David Blough mishandled the handoff, and the Falcons recovered the fumble to take over after the two-minute warning....

WIXOM, MI — The Huron River dodged a bullet. Less than 20 pounds of chromium are estimated to have reached the Huron River from the toxic chemical spill into the city of Wixom’s wastewater treatment plant by Tribar Technologies, according to a report from state regulators released on Friday, Aug. 12.

KENT COUNTY, MI -- Several people are working to unearth mastodon bones in a West Michigan field after they were discovered during a road construction project. Staff with the University of Michigan’s Museum of Paleontology are at the site, overseeing the recovery. A construction crew was working to install...